From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-11-19T10:30:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol#inspect bug?


On Nov 18, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Dominik Bathon wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:57:28 +0100, Eric Hodel  
> <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 18, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Dominik Bathon wrote:
>>
>>> Symbol#inspect should return a valid symbol literal, right?
>>
>> Not according to the RDoc:
>>
>> $ ri Object#inspect
>>       Returns a string containing a human-readable representation of
>>       _obj_. If not overridden, uses the +to_s+ method to generate  
>> the
>>       string.
>
> Yes, but:
>
> $ ri Symbol#inspect
>      Returns the representation of sym as a symbol literal.

I consider Object#inspect to set the intent of all the #inspect  
methods, but this may be an oversight.

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